Overview
- Agents were seen Friday across Lakeview, Wicker Park, Bucktown and West Town, extending Operation Midway Blitz into residential areas.
- Video shows tear gas deployed on a Lakeview residential street after neighbors gathered around an agents’ vehicle, according to the local alderman.
- Community groups reported at least nine detentions, including a West Town case where agents blocked a car, smashed a window and pulled a man from the vehicle.
- A.N. Pritzker Elementary instituted a soft lockdown and other CPS campuses tightened safety protocols, keeping doors closed while classes continued.
- Chicago police said they de-escalated a separate confrontation without making arrests, and Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino defended the force used as compliant with agency policy amid a federal order limiting tear gas on the ground.